 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...asleep, " O, men, with sisters dear ! O, men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. " But why do I talk of death ? That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
 | Stephen SHIRLEY - 1855 - 210 pages
...dream. Oh ! men with sisters dear, Oh ! men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you are wearing out, But human creatures lives. Stitch, stitch, stitch,...with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt. But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ! I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 428 pages
...In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A SHROUD as well as a shirt ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my ownIt seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1854 - 120 pages
...staff the eightieth year of this my misspent life." 3d. Multipliers ; as, single, double, triple. " Sewing at once with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt." HOOD. 4th. Compound; as, biennial, trilateral, monopetalous. " A monopetalous corolla consists of several... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 pages
...has not wept over the Song of the Shirt } Who has not sympathized with the tenant of the garret — In poverty, hunger, and dirt Sewing at once with a double thread A shrond as well as a shirt ! — until the very names, " needle-work" and " needle-women." become associated... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - 1855 - 688 pages
...Think of that, ye Tipperary turf-cutters ! Think of that, ye poor starving London needle-women, who " Stitch, stitch, stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread A shrond as well as a shirt ! " Xow for a macedoine of advertisements — to all concerned. They are... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...antithesis ;) here are a few examples. In the " Song of the Shirt," he tells us that the singer sat " Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt." And she cries, " 0, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap !" What handwriting... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 pages
...antithesis ;) here arc a few Ц>1». In the "Song of the Shirt," he tells ta the ringer eat "Siwipg at once with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt." And she cries, " Oh, God ! that bread should ho so dear, And flesh and blood go ch'cap !" What handwriting... | |
 | 1855 - 576 pages
...employ a few of those accomplished needle-women of whom the poet tells, who, so conveniently, " Sew at once with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt " ? It would at least allow men to be a little more decent and respectable, whether in living, dying,... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...Sisters dear I 0 ! Men, with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creature's lives ! Stitch— stitch— stitch, In poverty, hunger,...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt ! But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grfely bone, 1 hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
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Men! with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch - stitch - stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. 
